Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew
Felin-Fach, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llandefalle, Brecon, Felin-Fach, Powys, designated on 31 March 2005.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2005
- Locality
- Llandefalle
- Town
- Brecon
- Community
- Felin-Fach
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.01140, -3.30093
- Cadw reference
- 84319
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 214 Talgarth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the E side of the churchyard in the centre of Llandefalle some 900m W of the A470.
History
C18 stone and timber lychgate to Church of Saint Matthew.
Exterior
Lychgate, two rubble stone side walls with inner benches carrying gabled stone tiled roof with weatherboards in front and rear gables. Within two roughly shaped wall-posts support a queen-strut truss in centre of two-bay roof. Similar truss to E. Plain wooden gates.
Reason for designation
Included as a plain C18 lychgate, of group value with Church of Saint Matthew.
Nearby in the register
- Church of Saint MatthewReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trebarried CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Trebarried HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.